The 2002 Florida Attorney General election took place on November 5, 2002, to elect the
Attorney General of Florida
The Florida attorney general is an elected cabinet official in the U.S. state of Florida. The attorney general serves as the chief legal officer of the state and is head of the Florida Department of Legal Affairs.
The office is one of Florida's t ...
. The election was won by
Charlie Crist who took office in January 2003.
Republican primary
Candidates
*Locke Burt,
State Senator
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Charlie Crist,
Education Commissioner of Florida
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Tom Warner,
State Representative
Results
Democratic primary
Candidates
*Walt Dartland
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Buddy Dyer
John Hugh "Buddy" Dyer (born August 7, 1958) is an American politician who is the 32nd Mayor of Orlando. First elected in 2003, he is Orlando's longest-serving mayor. He is a member of the Florida Democratic Party. Previously he represented Orl ...
, State Senator
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Scott Maddox
Scott Charles Maddox (born March 13, 1968) is an American politician. He was the mayor of Tallahassee, Florida, from 1995 to 1996 and from 1997 to 2005. Maddox is the former chair of the Florida Democratic Party and a former Tallahassee City Comm ...
, Mayor of
Tallahassee
Tallahassee ( ) is the capital city of the U.S. state of Florida. It is the county seat and only incorporated municipality in Leon County. Tallahassee became the capital of Florida, then the Florida Territory, in 1824. In 2020, the population ...
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George H. Sheldon, former State Representative and nominee for
Education Commissioner of Florida in 2000
Results
General election
Results
References
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Attorney
Florida
Florida is a state located in the Southeastern region of the United States. Florida is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the northwest by Alabama, to the north by Georgia, to the east by the Bahamas and Atlantic Ocean, and to ...
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